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Fun with bloodthirsty ruthless dictators: North Korea’s video summarizing the Singapore Summit

June 16, 2018June 15, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Donald Trump, DPRK, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, Singapore

Not that long ago, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un were on a path to nuclear war. Now they’re apparently BFFs.

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Music News 

And now, a musical break from North Korea

June 11, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Donald Trump, DPRK, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea

Funny how Donald Trump likes to cozy up to authoritarian leaders and dictators while simultaneously insulting America’s allies and friends.

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Movies 

This Laibach concert film could be the weirdest thing to come out of North Korea

March 24, 2018March 23, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concert Film, DPRK, Laibach, North Korea

Laibach, the heavy industrial act from Slovenia (est. 1980), was weird to begin with. But when they announced they were

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Random Music News for Tuesday, January 16, 2018

January 16, 2018January 15, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Air France, Dave Grohl, David Bowie, DPRK, Facebook, Foo Fighters, France, Keith Richards, North Korea, Plagiarism, Pogues, Rock is Dead, Shane McGowan, Vanda and Young

Now that Blue Monday is behind us, we can concentrate on getting through the second half of what’s been (generally)

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North Korean Defector Claims to have Witnessed 11 Teenage Musicians Executed with Anti-Aircraft Guns

September 20, 2017September 20, 2017 Alan Cross 2 Comments DPRK, Execution, Musicians, North Korea

Hee Yeon Lim is a 26-year-old defector from North Korea. She claims to have witnessed a horrific mass execution of

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Random Music News for Thursday, September 22, 2016

September 22, 2016September 22, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Adele, BBC, Beats, Donald Trump, DPRK, Dr. Dre, Michael Jackson, North Korea, Prince, Salesforce.com, SL-1200, U2

And just like that, it’s autumn. Here’s some music news. Interesting: BBC Radio 1 wants to become “the Netflix of

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WTF? 

Propaganda Fun! Life in North Korea Mixed with Hall and Oates

March 3, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments DPRK, North Korea

North Korea is a horrible little country where a brutal paranoid dictator funnels the nation’s scarce resources into military might while

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North Korea Musical Drama Over Kim Jong-Un’s Sister and the Guitarist Security Lapse

October 9, 2015October 9, 2015 Alan Cross 1 Comment DPRK, Guitarist, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea

Oh, North Korea. You’re just a nutty, horrible place. We all hate performance reviews, but be thankful that you don’t

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Did K-Pop Just Help the World Avoid Nuclear War on the Korean Peninsula?

August 23, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments DMZ, DPRK, K-Pop, North Korea, South Korea

The strip of no-man’s land along the 38th parallel on the Korean peninsula is an extremely weird and dangerous place.

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The First Western Rock Band to Perform in North Korea Will Be…Laibach?

July 17, 2015July 17, 2015 Alan Cross 1 Comment DPRK, Laibach, North Korea

Laibach dropped into my consciousness in the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the

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Interrogated in North Korea for Playing the Wrong Song

July 8, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments DPRK, Kim Cheol-woong, North Korea, Richard Clayderman

I’ve been to the DPRK–sort of. On a trip to Seoul, we took a tour of the southern side of

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